On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Sean Farley <sean at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> I agree that petsc/include/petsc is stupid. I see no reason to change the >> perfectly logical include/private just to match what >> some idiot programmers did. >> > > Huh? So, if I install petsc with a --prefix, and (god-forbid!) some other > project also has a 'private' directory, then there's now a conflict. Jed > isn't just pulling this convention out of his ass here. > I am labeling installing into a single directory hopelessly stupid. That is why we invented directories, so that filenames need not hold all namespace information. The Linux idiots seem to have forgotten this. Matt -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20120312/88dc1c7e/attachment.html>
